June 2002

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Features

Hope in a Vial

Will there be an AIDS vaccine anytime soon?

By Carol Ezzell

Islands of Genius

Artistic brilliance and
a dazzling memory can
sometimes accompany
autism and other
developmental disorders

By Darold A. Treffert and Gregory L. Wallace

Tech

Spintronics

Microelectronic devices that function by using the spin
of the electron are
a nascent multibillion-dollar industry--and may lead to quantum microchips

By David D. Awschalom, Michael E. Flatté and Nitin Samarth

Disturbing Behaviors of the Orangutan

Studies of these great apes show
that some males pursue an unexpected and
disquieting evolutionary strategy

By Anne Nacey Maggioncalda and Robert M. Sapolsky

Essay: No Truth to the Fountain of Youth

By Bruce A. Carnes, Leonard Hayflick and S. Jay Olshansky

The Life Cycle of Galaxies

Astronomers are on the verge of explaining the enigmatic variety of galaxies

By Guinevere Kauffmann and Frank van den Bosch

The Complexity of Coffee

One of life's simple pleasures is really quite complicated

By Ernesto Illy

Departments

From the Editor

A Death Every 30 Seconds

Letters

Letters

Advances

Lifting the Screen

Scaling the Quakes

A Philosopher's Stone

The Child Within

Divide and Vitrify

URLs in Urdu?

Gain without Pain

Battling Resistant Bacteria

Nice Threads

Here's Magnet in Your Eye

Hit or Miss

Double or Nothing

Recommended

Men, Money and Malaria

Skeptic

The Shamans of Scientism

Anti Gravity

About the Size of It

50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

50, 150 and 150 years ago

In Brief

Data Points: Shark Bites Man

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Puzzling Adventures

Privacy Taboos

Profile

Man of Two Cultures

Staking Claims

Wanted: More Mothers of Invention

Innovations

Thinking Big

By the Numbers

Bad Things Happen

Technicalities

Whatever You Say

Working Knowledge

Hidden Guides

Departments

Fuzzy Logic

Ask the Experts

Ask the Experts: June 2002

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